Principal Guidance, Navigation, Control Engineer

🕒 March 25

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K2 Space Corporation

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2022

🚀 Aerospace

🔧 Hardware

🏛️ Government

Aerospace • Hardware • Government

K2 Space Corporation is a California-based aerospace manufacturer that designs and produces large, high-power satellite buses intended to deliver significantly more power, mass and payload volume at lower cost than traditional large satellites. The company emphasizes production-line style builds and commercial supply chains to shorten lead times and reduce per-unit cost, enabling multi-manifest launches and multi-orbit missions across LEO, MEO, GEO and cislunar space. K2 serves commercial, scientific and government/defense customers, and focuses on enabling missions that require high throughput, high-power payloads.

📋 Description

• As a Principal GNC engineer, be a core driver of spacecraft GNC architecture • Execute detailed trade studies on spacecraft’s guidance, attitude control, and orbit estimation systems • Anticipate company needs and set up infrastructure for core and future business • Own and execute the Verification and Validation plan for the GNC stack in first 3 months • Support launch and on-orbit operations of K2 spacecraft bus – the Mega in first 6 months • Own planning and development of future tooling to support GNC for future missions in first year

🎯 Requirements

• Experience with GNC actuator or sensor sizing, selection, and system design • Experience with implementing attitude control and/or estimation algorithms on spacecraft • Experience with verification and validation of GNC flight software in an integrated environment, leveraging 6-DOF simulation and HITL testing. • Experience with early-stage spacecraft conceptual design, i.e. “clean sheet” design work • Experience with Python, Julia, C/C++, or Matlab for algorithm development, implementation, and simulation

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off • Medical/dental/vision coverage • Life insurance • Paid parental leave • Many other perks